Authentication
Embed secure login and single sign-on for custom applications
50 million
daily authentications on the Okta Identity Cloud
2 weeks
eliminated per SAML integration
10+ SDKs
in the languages you work in
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Frictionless login
Simplify sign-in with a secure, seamless experience that will delight your end-users.
Social login and generic OIDC support
Microsoft, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and any 3rd party OIDC provider support for easy registration and login for end users
Single Sign-On to 3rd party applications
Easily connect users to your on-prem or 3rd party cloud apps. With over 6,000 pre-built integrations, the Okta Integration Network is the broadest in the industry.
Password security, enforcement and encryption with the strongest hashing algorithm available and flexible password policies
Identifier-first login flow and IDP discovery
Simply route users to the correct next step based on adaptive context
If
Known user
Then
Present password field
If
Has social account
Then
Route to social
If
Has enterprise IdP
Then
Route to IdP
Passwordless authentication using an email-based magic link
Seamless login experiences without the burden of cumbersome passwords is now possible using email based magic links.
- Secure One-click login experience
- Customizable email templates
- No cumbersome password management
- Easy email enrollment and updates
Respond to anomalous login behavior with Risk-Based Authentication
Okta’s machine learning capabilities allow you to minimize the need for prescriptively creating access policies. With Risk-Based Authentication, Okta establishes a baseline login behavior for each individual user, and responds to anomalous activity with the appropriate set of strong factors for both high and low risk login attempts.
Password only
Password + Okta Verify with Push
Okta Verify + U2F
Pre-authentication sign-on policy evaluation
Stop brute force attacks in its tracks by evaluating Okta’s sign-on policies before credential evaluation thereby reducing the likelihood of account lockouts and improving user experience.
Customizable user experience
Easily embed authentication using our pre-built sign-in widget or customize the experience to match your brand.
Pre-built sign-in widget
Okta-hosted or customer-hosted options allow a dev to deploy a sign-in experience in front of any app or portal in minutes. Pre-built UI for:
- Login
- Registration
- Account recovery
- Password reset
- MFA enrollment
- Account verification
Broad language support
SDKs to enable modern frictionless login in minutes
Create custom experiences by exposing identity functionality with the broadest and deepest set of REST APIs in the industry.
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Fully customize the authentication experience to your organization’s look and feel
Custom domain, error pages, and emails
Adobe uses Okta to connect millions of customers and partners to their Creative Cloud suite. Read case study ›
MGM Resorts increases M life participation and provides security for their guests with a single set of credentials for logging in. Read case study ›
Okta provides a central customer repository, API security, and speed to deployment in a HIPAA compliant infrastructure. Read case study ›
Heal builds a HIPAA-compliant mobile app to revolutionize the doctor visit with Okta APIs as its identity microservice. Read case study ›
Dignity Health's clinical trial with children’s inhalers leverages IoT and Okta API Access Management. Read blog post ›
Okta provides one unified identity layer to connect people, apps, and services, to the Commerce Cloud. Read case study ›
Customize branding based on app context
Tailor the look and feel of the identity experience from registration to authentication to authorization based on application context. Enables a seamless identity experience across multi-branded organizations.
Centralized administration
Centralize access management company-wide. Give the security team more control.
Flexible policy engine
Granular user, group, app and contextual sign-on policies paired with password complexity and logout experience requirements
Pre-built admin and developer UI with scoped admin roles
Security reporting
Real-time log of events, out-of-the-box reports, integration to SIEMs
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Event Hooks
Event Hooks allow you to be notified of certain events within Okta so you can more tightly integrate with or kickoff processes in downstream technologies. Potential customizations made possible by Event Hooks include:
- Send authentication context to external database
- Push that a password has been reset or changed to security systems
- Notify an IT Slack channel of suspicious activity
Inline Hooks
Inline Hooks allow developers to modify inflight Okta processes with custom logic and data from a non-Okta source.
- Registration inline hook: Extend self-service registration with external custom logic or 3rd party services
- SAML and token inline hook: Ability to interrupt the authorization flow to insert claims into an SAML assertion or JWT
- Password import hook: Validate credentials in your existing system and move them to Okta
